Thinking and Designing Beyond the Jig-Seating Reimagined

Authors

Lily Watson

Files

Faculty Mentor

Dr. Stephen Gilson

Program

Interdisciplinary Disability Studies

Description

Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies. Enter, the impaired body, not simply as a source for treatment and revision but as a challenge to standard design. This poster presents an innovative chair redesign project. The effort was intended to enhance comfort and functionality as well as aesthetics of seating in public spaces.

Publication Date

4-14-2023

Document Type

Poster

Publisher

University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

City

Orono

Keywords

universal design, disability, chairs, seating, redesign, disability studies

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Watson, L. (2023, April). Thinking and designing beyond the jig-seating reimagined. (PDF). Presented at the 2023 University of Maine Student Symposium: Research and Creative Activity 2023. Orono, ME.